University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 29, 1988
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Congress approves defense budget bill
Star Wars spending restriction removed
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Congress yesterday voted easy, approval of a new Pentagon budget bill shrank its provisions on Star Wars and arms control that had helped attract a presidential vet last month.
First, the House passed the measure by a 369-48 margin. Three hours later, the Senate approved it 91-4.
Rep. Les Aspin, D-Wis., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said that President Obama's chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that President Obama was
The defense authorization measure differs only slightly from the $300 billion package Reagan vetog Aug. 3, but it removes one restriction on Star Wars anti-missile spending and limitation on arm control on arms
Both of the Democratic-backed limits were cited by Reagan as among the reasons he rejected the measure.
Fitzwater said the administration was particularly pleased that restrictions had been removed on the Strategic Defense Initiative.
White House spokesman Martin Fitzwater said the administration was "encouraged by the progress" of his team that does appear to be in the office.
The new measure was written in the last week during client-doctor meetings at The New York Institute of Frank Carlucci, Aspin, Numn, and leaders of the House and Senate
The defense budget is the major unresolved issue as Congress tries to approve all the money bills needed so government can function.
Indictment against Noriega is political ploy, lawyers say
MIAMI — The drug indictment against Panama's military ruler Gen Manuel Noriega was a political pressure to impress him on the Panama Canal Treaty, his attorneys did not document its unsealed Wednesday.
The Associated Press
made no reference to Vice President George Bush or his campaign, as prosecutors had feared when they asked that it be kept under wraps.
But their 65-page motion asking for dismissal of the trafficking charges
The motion was unsealed after the S. attorney's office found that conspiracy charges against the "blackmail" had feared Noriega might use to bargain with the defendants.
Reagan signs Canadian trade bill
WASHINGTON — President Reagan yesterday signed legislation implementing the U.S. Canadian free trade agreement. He said the agreement would mean lower prices for goods and many new jobs for workers.
The Associated Press
The Senate approved the bill on Sept. 19 by a vote of 83-0. With the president's signature, it clears the way for U.S. action in phasing out $20 billion in merchandise that crosses the U.S.-Canada border each year.
The agreement was approved this year by the Canadian House of Commons, but it won't be used until Senate said they would delay action until Prime Minister Brian Mulrony held an election. He speculation is that he will not hold a vote in election for late November. He is
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, as promised, vetted legislation yesterday tightening curbs on textile, apparel and shoe use. He said the bill would have "dissatisfied effects" on the U.S. economy.
President vetoes imports bill
Reagan's action set the stage for a congressional override vote next week. One prime backer estimated
four years into his term.
Mulroney, a Progressive Conservative, is a strong supporter of the liberals in Washington. The liberals, the Liberals and the New Democrats, oppose it. Public opinion polls show that 80% of voters
that he was within eight votes of the two-thirds majority needed to overrule the president.
White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Reagan voiced the bill as soon as it arrived from Capitol Hill.
The bill, intended to protect U.S. industries from foreign competition, won final congressional approval last Friday.
divided on the issue.
Reagan signed the bill in a Rose Garden ceremony. He said, "This is a moment future historians will cite as a landmark, a turning point in the forward march of trade, commerce and even civilization itself."
"That's a dramatic statement I know," he said, and the agreement "creates the world's largest free trade area" and "will mean lower prices for consumers, jobs galore for them and new markets for producers."
The bill calls for a 10-year phase-out of tariffs and a number of other trade cuts under the pact signed in October 2004 that includes the Canadian prime minister.
The free-trace zone would remove barriers between the North America and Europe, but it would continue to have separate sets of tariffs and quotas on imports from
...
Israel is the only country that now has a free-trade agreement with the US, and it is compared with the $131 billion a year in goods that make Canada this year's top exporter.
News Briefs
REAOGAN'S BUDGET-WRIST RESIGNES: President Reagan announced today that he had been nominated to the position of Office of Management and Budget, James C. Miller III. The president said he would appoint the deputy director of the agency, Joe Wright, as his successor, which acts as the president's budget-writing office.
ISRAELI CONFLICT CONTINUES: Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank yesterday barred supporters of U.S.-born legislator Meir Kahane from holding his anti-Arab party's speech after a rally in the banned Temple extremists from touring the Temple Mount, a sacred site claimed by Moslims and Jews. Israelis soldiers shot and wounded nine Arabs in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, including a 16-year-old boy shot and wounded six of his house, anonymous hospital officials said.
GOBACBEHV'S POLICIES APPEALING: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said it will be 'in the Western interest' for Mikhail S. Saakon to attend the United States-Soviet Union. In an interview published today in the New York Times, Thatcher asked what particular appeals to her about Russian policies and why she ideas that enlarging liberty and responsibility will give you greater economic prosperity."
FRENCH PILOT SUSPENDED: France suspended for eight weeks on Wednesday the license of a French Navy aircraft that crashed at an air show last June, killing three people. Transport Minister Bruno Lecourt said the crash.
Michel Asseline also would lose his qualification as a flight instructor for life. The license of copilot Pierre Mazieres was suspended for two months.
SOVETI INACTION CRITICIZED: The official Communist Party newspaper in Moscow yesterday criticized police and local government for their inability to quell ethnic conflict in the southern region of Nagorno-Karabash. The Government tougher official action to quell the demonstrations and violence in Nagorno-Karabash that have kept the region in turmoil since February.
35 DEAD IN AFGHANISTAN: Rebels in Afghanistan shot rockets into the capital yesterday. One missile exploded near a downtown bus stop, killing three and more than 150, the Tass news agency said.
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